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Originally posted by Irish M1ck
reply to post by Aermacchi
You have been reading far too many blogs. Garbage in, garbage out.
C'mon man.
Originally posted by h5mind
I'm afraid we're focusing on the wrong aspect of Obama's citizenship status-- i.e., where he was born. Forget for a moment how easy it would be for our intelligence agencies to create a birth certificate showing Obama to be born in Hawaii-- or Kansas, for that matter. The bigger question which is typically ignored is that of his status at birth not place of birth.
Most people know Obama's Dad was born in Kenya. Not as many know that Kenya was a British protectorate at the time, making Barack Sr. a British subject. Why is this important? In Great Britain, citizenship is determined by the father, not mother. So here's the point-- REGARDLESS of where our 'president' was born, his citizenship status at birth would have, by blood and law, been British. Per that law, Obama would have held such citizenship until the age of 18, at which point he could choose to remain British, or assume the nationality of his birthplace. As has been stated on Fact Check, he "allowed that citizenship to expire". Either way, he would be contitutionally ineligible to serve as president of the United States.
If the above conclusions are accurate, then it would go a long way toward explaining why Obama is so cagey and secretive about his school transcripts, as such would no doubt indicate his British citizenship. Probably a lot harder to forge every single school and medical record than one puny birth certificate, isn't it?
But there are plenty who say upon hearing such evidence, "Who cares?". The point is, a British-American, or any other hyphenated American, is likely to be divided in their loyalties-- American when it serves their purposes, and "other" when it does not. Kind of like Jennifer Lopez calling herself a New Yorker early in her career and when she dated Ben Affleck, but a proud latina and Puerto Rican once she married Mark Anthony. As the scriptures say, " man cannot serve two masters, for he will love the one and hate the other."
This issue speaks to lies, deception and hypocrisy-- hardly the sort of characteristics we need to be cultivating in our political leaders.
If you found an employee lied on their application, it would be grounds for immediate dismissal-- why should we hold our Commander in Chief to a lower standard?
Originally posted by whatukno
It wouldnt matter if you found a video of Obama being born at pearl harbor complete with hula dancers! It wouldnt matter at this point if every piece of legitimate evidence at this point was brought forward showing that Obama was born in the US.
Skeptics won't care.
It doesn't even matter that Obama's mother is American which means that he is a natural born US citizen. Nope, doesn't matter.
Just one more thing for the extreme right to complain about. Go ahead, in the end it doesn't matter and people's time and money will be wasted going after a non issue.
It doesn't even matter that Obama's mother is American
Go ahead, in the end it doesn't matter and people's time and money will be wasted going after a non issue
Originally posted by dragonridr
At first i thought it was just BS or republicans attacking democrats. But as i saw court cases where Obamma spent money on lawyers to have case dismissed instead of taking his birth certificate to the judge and have the judge go hes a us citizen the end. Im now thinking there may be something to this.
Originally posted by Irish M1ck
reply to post by dragonridr
He can't take his BC to the judge. Well, he can take the COLB, but that's already been dismissed as "not good enough" by these people anyway. If they want to get an expert to view his vaulted BC, they need a court order.
Present a good case, and they will get what they want. Continue with the same speculative "evidence", and it will remain on boards like this to be shot down by guys like me.
Originally posted by ProfEmeritus
reply to post by manmaidslave
What would you have us do, if you found out he was from Kenya. Then what? put in Mcain/Palin?
That is an easy question to answer. If it is proven that he was born in Kenya, then anyone involved in the deception should be tried, and if convicted, sent to prison, including Obama. Forging documents and destroying those that prove he was born in Kenya is a Felony.
Anything less would be a travesty of justice. No one should be above the law. Nixon resigned before being removed in office for his crimes, and so should Obama.
Given his record so far, his removal certainly would not hurt the country. At that point, Joe "give me a f&*$ing break" Biden would become President. Imagine the press conferences then. They would all be X-rated, and the censor would have a ball bleeping out all his answers.
Originally posted by dragonridr
A colb copy of live birth is not a birth certificate by the way. In case you were not aware of this.
Originally posted by coven
Originally posted by dragonridr
A colb copy of live birth is not a birth certificate by the way. In case you were not aware of this.
Uhmmm I don't know where you get your information from, but I have a COLB that was given to me AT THE BIRTH of my son.
My Birth Certificate says "Birth Certificate" My Son's say's "Certificate of Live Birth", Yet... they are both the EXACT SAME DOCUMENT. Neither is a replacement, and both were filled out and filed at the time of my birth and my sons birth.
so, just to sum it up...
Just because you want it to be the case... Doesn't make it the case.
COLB and BC are one and the same, as has been evident and proven on more than one occasion on this site.
Instead of coming in pissed off that your guy lost the election (which just a heads up... any of you that joined pre/during the election and all you do is bash Obama, makes your purpose on this site extremely evident) and doing everything you can to try and change opinions on a discussion forum; why not actually form a VALID case and get it heard in the Courts?
But then again, you have to deal with Biden or Pelosi as Prez and god knows you don't want that...
those of you arguing these points have ZERO valid evidence which is why you have yet to have a hearing over it.
Coven
Originally posted by Irish M1ck
In fact, all of the initial reasons for speculation were answered for and proven to be false.
[edit on 3/18/2009 by Irish M1ck]